Testament of Judah

Chapter 19

  1. 1 My children, the love of money leadeth to idolatry; because, when led astray through money, men name as gods those who are not gods, and it causeth him who hath it to fall into madness
  2. 2 For the sake of money I lost my children, and had not my repentance, and my humiliation, and
  3. 3 the prayers of my father been accepted, I should have died childless. But the God of my fathers
  4. 4 had mercy on me, because I did it in ignorance. And the prince of deceit blinded me, and I sinned as a man and as flesh, being corrupted through sins; and I learnt my own weakness while thinking myself invincible.